2 children beheaded by militants, Afghan authorities say

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27. To young and to old.

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I use to deal with Children and Youth and had to study up on Pedophilia in the US. In the US (and other nations) most victims are about age 12, very few younger then 11 (and almost none younger then 10). While victims exist after they turn 14, but the drop off is huge. Men who like little boys tend to like them about age 12, much younger or older these men are NOT turned on.

You see this is the Catholic Church scandals (and the more recent Boy Scouts problems), the problem is NOT 10 or 16 year olds, but in between. There is a group of men who finds adolescent males sexually attractive. These are your "Kept Boys" even in Afghanistan and these two victims are to young and to old.

In the reports is a case of custody of an eight year old boy and visitation between him and his father, a convicted child molester who liked young boys. At trial the Psychologist reported that the Father was sexually attracted to 12 year old boys, an eight year old boy was to young for him (i.e. an eight year old boy was NOT a sexual object in the father's eyes, unlike a 12 year old boy). At trial and later on appeal the courts ruled that since the boy was still to young to be sexual attractive to the man, visitation was ordered to be permitted. I suspect a different result would have been the case once the boy hit 10 or 11, but at age 8, still to young. Just an example of the general age of these victims.

I bring up these cases to show that the "Market" for "Kept Boys" is between age 11 and 14, with preference for 12-13 year olds. I find the practice abhorrent, but it exists and I am reporting on it. The reason I am reporting is that the ages of these two victims are to young (age 10) and to old (age 16) to be "Kept Boys", and thus something else is up in regards to these killings.

I can NOT completely rule out the possibility, but I have my doubts.